Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025
Organisation: Schools (Government)
**Salary**: Salary not specified
Occupation: Teacher
Reference: 1443226
**Location Profile**:
Donnybrook Primary School opened in January 2023 with 114 students. Our school is located in Donnybrook, 32 kilometres north of Melbourne. Planned for up to 525 local students, our current enrolment is 325 students across 15 classes from Foundation to Grade 6. We forecast an enrolment of well over 400 students for the beginning of the 2025 school year, with the school approaching 500 students before 2026.
We are located in a new residential estate on an expansive 3.5 hectare site, just a short walk from the popular Gumnut Park and Adventure Playground. Our school is surrounded by an engaged, supportive and rapidly growing community. Donnybrook Primary School is developing close ties to the local community, with strong support from local organisations and community services.
Our school includes:
An administration building with a library, staff offices and amenities as well as specialist teaching areas for visual arts, science and food technology
Two learning neighbourhood buildings with general purpose classrooms, and flexible and collaborative learning spaces
A community hub building with a competition-grade gymnasium, canteen, music and performing arts space
Outdoor hardcourts, a rectangular sporting field, landscaped gardens and playgrounds.
The school expects to receive our first relocatable buildings in late 2024 to accommodate growing enrolments for 2025 and beyond.
Our school is culturally and linguistically diverse with many families with a language background other than English (LOTE). We are a proud, diverse, and inclusive school community. Our dedicated staff are committed to supporting each child to set goals and take pride in their achievements in a safe and caring learning environment.
Donnybrook Primary School began involvement as both a PLC school and as a School Wide Positive Behaviour Support school in 2024. Both of these initiatives connect strongly to the work begun in 2023 to set high expectations for student learning growth and to establish safe, calm, predictable learning environments where expected behaviours are taught, celebrated and acknowledged, and retaught.
Vision
At Donnybrook Primary School our vision is to be a school where all students thrive, academically, socially and emotionally. We inspire, challenge, and support every student to discover who they are, who they want to be and how to get there.
Mission
Donnybrook Primary School is an inclusive, safe and caring community which strives for excellence in education. We know that every child can learn, and that learning is for all of us. We aim to develop learners who are knowledgeable, caring, curious and creative who embrace others as equals, think critically, demonstrate integrity and act ethically.
Values
The values of Donnybrook Primary School are at the core of our school, declaring both who we are and who we aspire to be. Our values establish behaviour expectations for everyone, and they support our students to develop positive learning and social behaviours that will help them achieve success through their schooling and throughout their lives.
- Be Courageous
Stand up for what is right and advocate for yourself and others
Show grit - keep trying when things get tough, bounce back when you face obstacles
Be humble - be proud of who you are, understand your strengths and challenges. See every other person as your equal.
- Be Ambitious
Be energised and motivated to learn and try new things.
Push yourself, stretch, be ambitious to learn, grow and achieve.
Give serious, sustained effort, strive to be your best.
- Be Compassionate
Act with empathy, put others first, show that you truly care about other people.
Build great relationships and strong friendships, because everyone belongs at Donnybrook Primary School.
Work in partnership - students, teachers, families, and community - because when we listen to one another and work together, everyone benefits.
Connect and contribute to our community, because Donnybrook Primary School is the heart of this community and this community is at the heart of Donnybrook Primary School.
- Have Integrity
Take responsibility for your actions.
Respect yourself and others around you.
Be reliable and trustworthy.
Strive for justice - treat people fairly, help everyone have an equal right to learn; because everyone is entitled to learn and to be safe and happy at Donnybrook Primary School.
Donnybrook Primary School is committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment for all, including LGBTIQ+ students, staff members and families. Our values, our curriculum and our approach to teaching and learning are all anchored in a belief that schools can, should and do drive social justice in the community. We explicitly teach a curriculum that is anti-racist